Vince, the Marilyn Monroe and Einstein's joke above was a real life event in the life of George Bernard Shaw... The celebrated dancer Isadora Duncan once wrote to George Bernard Shaw declaring that, given the principles of eugenics, they should have a child together. "Think of it!" she enthused. "With my body and your brains, what a wonder it would be." "Yes," Shaw replied. "But what if it had my body and your brains?" Below are some more from the next best playwright: While traveling by train one day, George Bernard Shaw found himself sharing a compartment with two rather prudish middle-aged women. As all three were strangers, the journey passed for some time in silence. When the train passed through a tunnel and the compartment was suddenly shrouded in darkness, however, Shaw loudly planted several kisses on the back of his hand. As they emerged from the tunnel, the playwright then turned to his companions: "To which of you charming ladies," he asked, "am I indebted for the delightful interlude in the tunnel?" fooosh or fish...damn Irish!! Now GHOTI?? Read below: Because of its grammatical exceptions and erratic spelling, English is often cited as one of the world's most difficult languages to learn. George Bernard Shaw once demonstrated that the word 'fish,' for example, might be spelled 'ghoti' by borrowing the 'gh' from a word like laugh, the 'o' from women and the 'ti' from nation. George Bernard Shaw once found himself at a dinner party, seated beside an attractive woman. "Madam," he asked, "would you go to bed with me for a thousand pounds?" The woman blushed and rather indignantly shook her head. "For ten thousand pounds?" he asked. "No. I would not." "Then how about fifty thousand pounds?" he contined. The colossal sum gave the woman pause, and after further reflection, she coyly replied: "Perhaps." "And if I were to offer you five pounds?" Shaw asked. "Mr. Shaw!" the woman exclaimed. "What do you take me for!" "We have already established what you are," Shaw calmly replied. "Now we are merely haggling over the price."